Cicadas

June 7, 2024

“Have you been following the emergence of what may be as many as a trillion cicadas throughout the Midwest and Southeast?” asks Rabbi Ammi Hirsch. Maybe not. “New Yorkers don’t really commune with nature,” he says. But this year — the first time in 221 years that two cicada broods will rise from the earth simultaneously — perhaps we can learn something from these humble insects…